Dahir Lands, LLC v. American Transmission Co.

¶ 1. This case raises the question of the procedural steps that clerks of circuit courts are required to take in order to trigger the deadline for a landowner to appeal a just compensation award issued by a condemnation commission. The narrow issue presented is whether a clerk of circuit court needs to comply strictly with the notice requirements in Wis. Stat. § 32.06(8) (2007-08)1 in order to commence the sixty-day time limit for an appeal pursuant to Wis. Stat. § 32.06(10).

¶ 2. We conclude that clerks of circuit court must strictly comply with the unambiguous statutory requirements in order…